Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
C NEWS NOTES.

a visit to relatives.
Despite the dull times just now the plac
of amusement in town are nightly crowde
{ mo bullion shipped to-day" said T.
Z Pacific Express representative last evenln
The legislature meets next Monda
There will be a legion OF candidates II
Offices.
Anaconda has had it's 6rst ''week
prayer services. The meetings were W.
attended.
=, Anaconda people are overrun by dog
They say there are as many dogs as men
{ the town.
If Miss Jennie Bayley will call at TH
, MINER Office she will learn something to b.
+ advantage.
/ Sheriff Lloyd and Under Sheriff Reynolc
have the thanks OF this office for courtesie
to it's reporter.
i Patrick Mcguire wns buried yesterda
Sisters Hospital.
Cap" Owens left for Helena yesterda
morriug. He is a candidate for Sergeant
! alarms or doorkeeper.
Miss May Maxwell, of the Pacific Hote
at Pocatello, has been called to Omaha t
see her aged mother who is i'll.
The MINER office knows what impersona
Journalism is. Only the guilty cry out an
complain when the truth is told.
Disd-in Canyon City, Colorado, on tn
twenty-ninth OF December. OF asthma, Kos
cce H. Plunkett, aged sc years.
Manager Dawson will accept the thank
oil this Office for valuable points" OF in
formation about his line OF railroad.
o"Fred" Beal Will accept THE MINER
thanks for many courtesies dnrlng hi
night watch at the Centennial Hotel.
G.. F. Wooiston, the Helena water works
man, will arrive in that city next Wednes
day or Thursday from New York City.
Sands & Boyce are preparing for anothe1
drawing. This time it will be OF enough ar
ticles to set the winner up in housekeeping
The G. A. r. boys will rattle the tin cups
| and break hard tack in Butte on the ami
versary OF Washington's birthday, Feb
ruary %.
Policeman Jordan ran in two rowdies
last night after midnight. Their case vii
be heard to-day. Some OF the Lizzie Block
people will be witnesses.
TheDistrict Court will meet in Butte
February 20. This, the second Judicial
district, embraces Missoula, Deer Lodge
and Silver Bow counties.
Enoch Johns paid $500 for 16O acres Of
land, being the N. w. quarter Of Section
10. township 3 north. range z west. The
Northern Pacific sold it.
The Boulder stage has great difficulty, by
reason of snow and bad roads. 1t took
four hours yesterday to go IL miles. The
road in the Park is good.
The fourth Monday in February, the first
Monday in July and the fourth Monday in
September ave been named rs the meeting
days OF the District Court in this county.
Smiling Albert has a grand opening OF
bis New Road House over his Main street
saloon tonight. 1t will be for ladies and
their escorts and will Gil a want long felt.
Regular services will be held in the Presby-
terrain church Sabbath morningai 8 o'clock
and in the evening at 1880. Sabbath
school at 1890 p. w., Lyman E. Hanna,
pastor.
Officer Young put a man calling himself
''Scotty" in Jail this morning about l
o'clock. Scotty had a fuss with one, Will
liams, who married Annie Hart, a beer
erker.
Two Chicago dailies, the Times and Her
aid copied with friendly comment The MI
NER's story about Mel and Wolfe's chicken
Matching experience neal Socorro, New
Mexico.
Hon. Hiram Knowles delivered a most
interesting lecture on early days admin
istratiou OF justice in Montana last
Wednesday night in Helena. 1t is we'll
worth reading.
"Never knew it as dull in all my expert
ence as just now'-is the way three mer-
chants replied to the reporters inquiry for
news yesterday afternoon-the calm after
the holiday festivities.
A letter from a leading official OF Utah
says: keep up the publication OF Lo-
reno Shows trial. It is doing a power OF
good for the loyal cause in this Territory
1t will be published to the end.
Assistant General Freight and Traffic
Manager P. 2. Shelby has returned from a
business visit East TO his post in Salt Lake
City. "Pete' Shelby is one of the most
thorough railroad men in America.
Judge Henderson. OF the First Judicial
OF Utah-Hon. O. W. Powers Sue
cessor-is winning golden opinions among
the loyal people there. OF course the enc
mics of the Government hate and abuse
The Onion services will be continued next
week, beginning Monday night at 7:3O
at the Presbyterian church, at which revi-
val services will be a special feature. First
will be delivered by the Rev. W. E.
King.
Helena's assessment lists for 1886 foot
up S5,362, $40. Rebate on taxes, widows
ind other exemptions will reduce this
amount s., that the actual assessed value
Of property on which taxes will be paid is
about S., 5 0OO.
The MINER editorial staff have been in
upon excellent authority, that
threats Of personal violence towards them
been made by parties who object to
he exposure The MINER is engaged in
making OF the crooked dealings Of some OF
he Butte p~awnbrokers.
The MINER gratefully acknowledges the |
lind words that have been poured upon it |
or the exposure OF the pawnbrokers. The
'ery best and representative men OF Butte |
ell the office that it is doing a noble and
work in this exposure. The office
las not yet done with it.
The MINER has learned OF some eight |
nore cases similart to those published about
he pawnhrnkers' business, but it does
'ot wish to be understood as referring in |
is publications to any one Of the ''brokers"
Who do a legitimate business. 1t is to the
ones it makes reference.
Inc news note IN yesterday MINER 4
bout Maloney was not intended to reflect
q any way on Justice Dingeman. The re-
has known the justice well and fav-
rably since 1880 while in Valencia County. |
Mexico, and has no idea but that he |
5 an honorable and intelligent man and
'fficial. |
Doctor Doherty showed himself a man
night. A wild team was running
Main street opposite the Silver Bow
when the doctor ran to the middle of
he street, caught one OF the horses by the
1T and jaw, then turned the wild horses up
he hill and ran them against a bank of
on Quartz street.
Col. John Singleton Mosby will ride from
to California shortly. Col. |
iosby has been to Washington City to
range and settle his accounts with the
rs Consul in China. Atelegram
ill meet Mosby at Green River, asking him
o take the Oregon Short Line to Pocatello
nd then come to Butte for a day lust to
meet his friends.
in a conversation about midnight of last
light with one OF the representative Ger
OF Butte, the reporter learned a good
many facts about Mrs. Euler, whose I'M.
o%rtunate end is spoken of elsewhere in this
norning's MINER. All the statements 60
o show that she was an estimable. patient
nd lOyal wife. and II ia poc,l;or ly I,